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Sunday, November 11, 2012

See a Wonderful School in South Sudan!

I was privileged to visit Yei Christian School, in South Sudan, Africa for 2 weeks in October, 2012.  This is the same school I visited in October, 2011. 
This is a delightful, high-performing school in Yei County.  The teachers are dedicated, skilled, caring, and want to grow.  The students value education and work hard in the face of new opportunities - peace, safety, caring adults, food, clean water, school, love, God.
 
School starts everyday with an all-school assembly.  Students uniforms are inspected, announcements made, and the assembly starts by raising the flags, singing the South Sudan anthem, pledge, singing and prayers.
 
Pre-schoolers fidget just before the assembly begins.  Older boys are in the background.
 
Teachers park their bicycles and motorcycles (boda-boda's) behind the building that houses their desks and administration.
 
Kids cooling down after recess.
 
 
Preschool teacher reads to his students with one of the Big Books donated from Elmbrook and Merton.
 

Enrollment chart for each classroom.  Grade/total enrollment/boys/girls.
One classroom for each grade. Preschool, not shown, has 40 kids in one class.

This visit I observed 32 classes in preschool - P7, which is the highest grade in primary school.  My charge from the School Administrator was to collect data in several areas that I had reported on last year, and also facilitated an in-service around.  Again, I was asked to write a report on the data as well as facilitate another staff meeting on my last day there.
Futbol!
 
We used 4 classrooms for Saturday Art fun.

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